46. F. Engels. Synopsis of Volume One of Capital by Karl Marx
46. F. Engels. Synopsis of Volume One of Capital by Karl Marx[180]
CAPITAL BY KARL MARX, VOL. I. BOOK ONE — THE PROCESS OF CAPITALIST PRODUCTION [181]
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[180] manuscript covering only two-thirds of the book.Engels evidently wanted to use it in writing articles, reviews and, possibly, a pamphlet to popularise Marx's work. The time of its writing is suggested by Engels' letter to Marx of April 17, 1868, in which Engels wrote that he was summarising the book (see present edition, Vol. 42), and by Engels' remark "for the Fortnightly Review" made on one of the last pages of his manuscript (see this volume, p. 306). The comment shows that Engels intended to use this passage in the second part of his review for that journal. But when he learned from Marx's letter of August 10, 1868 that the editors had rejected the first part of his review (see Note 172), he gave up his intention. The synopsis may therefore have been written in the spring and summer (approximately April-early August) of 1868. The synopsis was first published, in Russian, in Marx-Engels Archives, Book IV, 1929. In the language of the original it appeared in 1933 as a separate edition prepared by the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the CC CPSU. It was published in English for the first time in the collection: Engels, On Marx's "Capital", Cooperative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in the USSR, Moscow-Leningrad, 1936.
[181] After the publication of Volume One of Capital, Marx made substantial alterations and additions to some sections of the book and changed its structure. As a result, instead of the six chapters and the supplement to Chapter I, the second (1872) and subsequent German editions are in seven parts consisting of 25 chapters. In the 1887 English edition edited by Engels, the structure of the volume conforms to that of the 1872-75 French authorised edition. In both editions, the text is divided into eight parts consisting of 33 chapters.